France Set to Open Black Boxes in Crash

By

Daniel Michaels And

David Pearson

Updated May 4, 2011 12:01 am ET

PARIS—French air-crash investigators said they found and retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from an Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean almost two years ago, less than two days after searchers found the plane's flight data recorder.

The two "black boxes" will now be shipped to Paris for analysis, which officials said should begin in about ten days. Industry officials and families of the 228 people onboard the Airbus A330 jetliner, who were all killed, hope soon to learn why the plane plunged from...